00:00:32 - Childhood in Al-Wasat neighborhood
00:10:34 - Year of the Nationalist Movement (Year of the Council “Al-Majlis”) in 1938
00:19:11 - The house he grew up in
00:21:19 - Studying with Al-Mutawaa then at Al-Mubarakiya school
00:31:41 - Cooking, food, and water in the past
01:09:04 - Holiday celebrations, and amusement in the forties
01:21:02 - Studying with Al-Mutawaa
01:26:49 - The Second World War
01:41:40 - Al-Mubarakiya school and Al-Jaafariya school
02:13:23 - Jews and Christians in Kuwait
02:44:12 - Going to the industrial high school in Cairo on a scholarship and the Wireless Institute in the forties
03:28:16 - The war of 1948 in Palestine
03:49:22 - The introduction of electricity in Kuwait
03:53:58 - His return from Cairo and the changes Kuwait underwent
04:00:50 - Jobs he was employed in and completing his education
04:35:17 - The ‘Al-Malik’ incident in 1957
04:42:29 - Establishing the Kuwait Club and the Al-Arabi Club
05:13:47 - Working in the field of law as a lawyer
05:39:11 - His visit to Palestine in the 70s
05:45:50 - Political events in Kuwait during the eighties
05:50:05 - The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
06:01:52 - Exiting through the Saudi border to Cairo in September
06:12:38 - The liberation of Kuwait
06:12:44 - Jobs he worked during the nineties
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